Bacon, Mardges. LE CORBUSIER in America: Travels in the Land of the Timid. 406 pp., 8 color and numerous b&w figures. Small square 4to, wraps. Cambridge and London, MIT Press, 2001.
A scholarly account of Le Corbusier's first trip to the United States, in 1935, sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art. The text describes both the visit, its effect on Le Corbusier, and the intellectual discourse prevalent in France at the time which offers a larger context for understanding his subsequent volume of memoirs about the trip entited "When the Cathedrals were White: Journey to the Country of Timid People".